A YouTube Weekend

ChristinaL — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:34:00 GMT

Hey there friends! [Now that you've started commenting, I feel like we know each other ]

People on the forums are always wanting to know what a typical weekend at Butler is like, so I thought I'd give you a rundown of one AND use this opportunity to feature some of the videos I took around town with our exciting new blogger's Flip camera (extremely fun little camcorder).

The videos are actually from two weekends ago, but I'll give you the play-by-play of last weekend because that's easier to remember.

Friday

9 am - 1 pm: Class!

Yeah, I'm a loser. I have class on Fridays. But it's Modern Dance, Revolutionary Europe & Postmodernism, so not too bad.

2 pm - 6 pm Meijer Run & baking party at Schwitzer.

My sorority matches us each up with a different new member (our "Phi friend") every week so we can get to know the new class better. My Phi friend Michaela and I decided to go all out and bond by making our own fortune cookies for all the freshmen Pi Phis. We bought supplies at my fave grocery store, the 24 hour Meijer on 38th St and then cooked in the kitchenette in Michaela's dorm. I never knew you could make your own fortune cookies but they turned out really cool.

If you're curious about the other shopping and restaurants near Butler, I made a quick video tour of some of the places to eat and shop on 38th St, about 5 minutes away from campus and let you in on informal Kappa Kappa Psi bonding at Steak n Shake

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6-7:30 pm Dinner at India Garden with my best friend.

Broad Ripple is a fun place about 8 minutes away from campus with TONS of restaurants... India Garden is great if you're looking to try something new - spicy, but tasty! I recommend it.

7:30 - ? Chillin at the house.

Our friend Bethy came to visit from IU, so my roommates and I hung out with her for a while. They wanted to go out to eat, but since I had already gone out and was really tired, I decided to chill at home and get caught up on my crazy life - so relaxing!

? - 3:30 am LOST Slumber party

My roommates and I have gotten hooked on the dvds of this TV show. We stayed up WAY too late finishing Season 1 and I fell asleep during episode one of Season 2.

Saturday, February 3rd

11:30 - 1:15 Honors Program Info Session

It was a Scholar's Forum weekend here at BU, so we had lots of prospective students visiting. (Any of you reading?) I helped out with the info sessions about the Honors Program, because I think it's way cool and every one who's eligible should apply!

1:15-4 pm Women's Basketball Game w/ Basketball Band

I love Butler Basketball, being in Hinkle Fieldhouse, and of course playing with the band.

Here's a video with clips I took during the Men's game vs. UIC on January 26th. Check it out to see how much fun game day at Hinkle is!

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4-6:45 pm Homework & getting ready to go out

6:45 - 8 pm Dinner at La Piedad Mexican restaurant with some KKPsi friends.

Back to Broad Ripple! It's kind of unusual for me to eat out in Broad Ripple twice in once weekend, but we were all dressed up so we decided to splurge.

8-10 pm Swing Night!

Kappa Kappa Psi, my band fraternity, hosted Swing Night as a fundraiser/event for the whole campus. We had swing dance lessons and then live music from the Butler Jazz Band. Ballroom Dance Club showed up and impressed us all with their crazy moves. I even convinced my friend Zak to give swing dance a try and he LOVED it (...you never know, boys!)

10 pm-1 am Phi Psi

My "little brother" from Kappa Kappa Psi just pledged a social fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi. I'd never actually been over to the house, so he gave us a tour and then we joined in on the dance party. No worries if you're like me and don't drink... I still have a good time talking with people or dancing (like a fool).

Sunday, February 4th

2 pm Time to wake up!

Oops... I must have been REALLY tired! I normally get up around 10 am on weekends to get things done, workout, etc. but I fell asleep before I even had a chance to set my alarm and slept for TWELVE straight hours... Not gonna lie, that's probably the latest I've ever slept in.

3-6 pm Work at the Writer's Studio

I have a job at Writer's Studio, which offers free peer writing tutoring for Butler students. Nobody came in on Sunday, though, so I caught up on some reading for history and my poetry class. and got paid for it : )

6-8 pm Dinner at home, hanging with my roomies, a little homework.

8-? pm Superbowl party at Lambda Chi Alpha

One of my friends invited me to watch the game with the men of Lambda... I assumed there would be more girls there but I was very much in the minority. Let me just say that football in a fraternity house = a MAJOR dose of masculinity! Not that I don't like football... I mean, how sweet was that game?? Of course we were all rooting for the Giants because of a) Manning #2 and b) the fact that they are not the Patriots. Yay for Colts country : )

For once I was actually done with all my Monday homework before Sunday night so I went to bed early! Good thing, too, because I decided to try out a 7:45 yoga class at the HRC the next day (great way to start the week, by the way.)

So, that's basically it! A peek into my weekend life. Every weekend here is different...usually I don't go out to eat or hang out at fraternities quite that much; sometimes I spend way more time studying; sometimes I go to lots of performances; sometimes I'm travelling or doing stuff around Indy and I'm not even at Butler that much. It just depends on the week! However, I hope you see that there is a lot to do here and we're always having a good time.

Until next weekend! : )

Parent's Weekend!

ChristinaL — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:57:00 GMT

We all know that college is about being independent and growing up on your own, but sometimes it is SO nice to just have Mom & Dad around to spoil you one more time!

Last weekend was Parent's Weekend here at Butler University, and I was so excited to have my mom and dad here.

Our schedule was pretty much jam-packed with all the events that Butler puts on for the weekend.

On Saturday, my mom went to study abroad info sessions in the morning, but my Dad and I were in Hinkle Fieldhouse checking out the Bulldogs Men's Basketball team at a little preseason scrimmage. Even though it wasn't a real game, a bunch of students, alumni and fans came out. We LOVE our basketball!

We also went to the football game vs. Davidson, which was pretty exciting because there was some weird play that happened for the first time in Butler history (but as I know very little about football, I can't tell you what it was... if you're interested, I bet butlersports.com knows!). Unfortunately, we lost, but hey, 4 wins in a row this year was a really big deal, so I'm still proud of them!

That night was Geneva Stunts at Clowes, which is a really long-standing tradition at Butler that raises money for the YMCA mission trip to Jamaica. Basically, all the Greek houses and residence halls get paired and put on skits about Butler according to a theme. They always incorporate lots of Butler places and lingo, so it's kind of like a campus wide inside joke and a fun way to share BU culture with our families.

The theme this year was Retro Remix, and Kappa Kappa Gamma & Sigma Nu won with a hilarious skit about a bunch of Butler students from the 1970s that end up at Class of 2011 orientation.

(Did I mention this competition requires singing and dancing?? Everyone takes popular songs and adapts them with Butler words and choreography.)

I loved Snu & Kappa's skit because they took the song "Buy You A Drank" by T-Pain and made it about getting coffee at our campus Starbucks and studying...slightly different from the original!

My parents had such a good time feeling like part of the Butler family and reliving the college days for a weekend.

My dad even made me take a picture of him on the floor of Hinkle fieldhouse so he could show his buddies...

He secretly really wants to be a Bulldog! (Don't we all? )

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